House mail-receptacle.



S. D. PIERCE.

HOUSE MAIL RE APPLICATION FILED JAN. 6, 1910.

GEPTACLE.

Patented June 14, 1910.

'lllE ddllllti Pratt STEPHEN ID. PIERCE, OF OCEAN CITY. NEVJ JERSEY.

HOUSE MAIL-RECEPTACLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

1 Patented c tin-e It Application filed January 6, 1910. Serial .No.536,782.

attachments therefor, and is particularly designed for use in connectionwith a house to house delivery. In devices of this character, asheretofore constructed, the individual mail boxes have been hung on theoutside of the house or there have been slots out directly through thedoor, these slots facing parallel with the front ofthe house. In someinstances the individual mail boxes have been hung within the recessformed by the door casing, so that they are substantially hidden fromview, but where the boxes are hung ou-the stop of the casing for thepurposeof hiding them from ordinary view, the same are located on theoutside of the building and it is necessary for the occupant of thepremises to open the door in order to get the mail.

The primary object of this invention is to overcome these objectionablefeatures by fitting a box or receptacle, interiorly of the houseadjacent the door, provided, with w a chute so arranged as to openoutwardly of the house in a substantially hidden position, and broadlyspeaking the invention consists in so arranging the chute that itextends inwardly and. downwardly in a slotcut through the door stop,jamb and part of the studding, the outside opening of the slot beinglocatedin the stop of the door jamb, V

or at right angles to the front of the house, and the inner end of theslot terminating in the mail receptacle.

To more fully explain the invention reference is had to the accompanyingdrawings illustrating a practical embodiment of the same, in which likeletters designate the same parts in the several views, and in whichFigure 1 is a fragmentary detail perspective View looking from theinside of the house toward the door and its jamb, one stile of the doorbeing broken away to show the chute terminating in the stop of the door'2 the hated at 14:, and

frame; Fig. :2 a transverse sectional vie on the line of l. b a view inelevation looking toward the front of the mail box, a. portion of thechute being broken away to show the spring operated closure.

Referring particularly to Fig. 2,1 desigl of the door frame,

notes the outside casi sheathi i -lthe stop or siu'lding, =6 the insidestri rig cas' lg, 7 the door, 5) and 9 de sting the lathing andplastering. respectively.

1O designates mail receptacle which may be of any suit e co: truction,and which is shown in the drawings-as comprising a box having glassfront door 11, which may be held closed by suitable locking meansillustrate-"l conventionally at "as comprising a hasn and staple memberprovided. with a cotter pin. T his box is provided with a chute 13opening thereto and extending upwardly and laterally to one side of thebox. As shown in. the drawings, this chute discharges into the boxpreferably at the upper and rear portion of the box, desigif telescopingconstruction, terminating at its outer end in a flange plate 1.5 whichlies in a plane parallel to the side walls of the box. The outer opensing of the chute is closed by any suitable door or closure, but I preferto provide a door or closure 16 hinged to the chute and provided withintervening coiled. springs 17 for normally maintaining the door closel8 designates a slot inclined downwardly and inwardly and extending fromthe stop of the jamb, through the studding, to the interior of thehouse, and in operation it will be readily seen that when my improvedattachment is applied to a house the box 10 is fitted interiorly of thehouse with the chute 13 extending upwardly and laterally to one side ofthe box, through the slot 18, terminatin in a position with the openingof the chute lying flush with the stop or facingstrip 4:.

4 Having thus described the invention, what I claim 1s:

1. A house mail box provided with a chute delivering thereto, said chuteextending upwardly above said receptacle and also extending laterallybeyond one side of said receptacle, he *openingat. the inner end of saidchute being disposed in a plane. at

rightangles to the opening in the outer end door iamh, v

of said chute, whereby upon instalment the box isarranged on the insideof the houseand the outside opening of the chute terminates at the stopface of the door in a protected position, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a door amb hav-- inga downwardly and inwardlyinclined .slot extending from the stop of the jamb,

casing and provided with a chute extending '15 l upwardly andlaterallybeyond one side of same through said slot and terminating atthe stop of the door, whereby mail may be delivered therethrough fromthe stop face of the door frame directly to the interior of 20 thehouse, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I afix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

- STEPHEN D. PIERCE.

Witnesses:

- LINWOOD W. MINTZER,

HARRY CONE.

